Pierre Joseph Cambon

Pierre Joseph Cambon (born the June 10th 1756 with Montpellier - died the February 15th 1820 with Saint-Jose-ten-Noode, close to Brussels), negotiating in fabrics, deputy of the Herault to the national Convention.

Of Protestant origin, this honest negotiating in fabrics of Montpellier east elected appointed of Herault to the legislative Parliament in 1791. Its knowledge of the financial problems and its republican ardor hold the attention there. He votes the death of Louis XVI, and formed part as of April 1793 of the Comité of public hello. He chairs several times Convention, makes vote by this one the Décret on the French revolutionary administration of the conquered countries. Preceded by its reputation by financier, it becomes in 1793 president of the Committee of Finances. One owes him the law on the confiscation of the goods of the clergy; he writes on the administration of finances a remarkable report/ratio which strongly contributes to restore the order. Especially, it illustrates by the creation of the Grand-Livre of the national Debt (August 24th 1793): convention recognizes the debts of the Old Mode there - skilful measurement, which wants to rejoin the shareholders with the Revolution. It takes part in the fall of Robespierre, but threatened by the reaction thermidorienne which followed, and compromised in the insurrection of April 1st, 1795, it must hide in Montpellier where it lives withdrawn until 1815. Briefly elected during the Hundred Days with the Room of the representatives (1815), it takes of active share only to the discussions on the budget. It is proscribed like regicide under the second Restoration, and dies in exile close to Brussels. There is of him a great number of Discours and Rapports on political matters.

Quotation

<> “When one ruins the Belgians, when one puts them at the same point of distress that the French, then one will admit them like members of the Republic”. With the general Charles François Dumouriez

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Complementary readings

R. Arnaud, Cambon, 1756-1820, the financial rout of the Revolution, Paris, Perrin, 1926,324 p.;
F. Bornarel, Cambon and the French revolution , Paris, F. Alcan, 1905,412 p.
E. - D. Large and L. of Pijardière, Letters of Cambon and other envoys of the town of Montpellier , Montpellier, Imprimerie Tighten, 1889,100 p.
P. - F. Pinaud, “Ministers for Finance: rupture or continuity? ”, in R.H., April-June 1995, pp. 283-320.
G. Saumade, “Cambon and its purchasers family of national goods”, in Historical Annals of the French revolution, 1938, n° 93-94, pp. 3-44.
Clovis Senna, Joseph Cambon (1756-1820), the financier of the Revolution, biography , Slats, 1987.

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